What kind of pituitary adenoma do you have ?
Is it the growth hormone and prolactin-secreting type ?
Read the pathologist's report.
You may well have an anti-aging tumor.
This means that, theoretically at least, if only the tumor did not grow further
and cause problems like compressing your optic nerve, you'd likely outlive
a lot of people.
The following studies are of great interest to life extensionists (like me).
As we age, the thymus shrinks, T-cell production decreases, cellular immunity
follows suit, we become subsceptible to infections like pneumonia and degenerative
diseases like cancer, and ultimately we die.
Implanting pituitary adenoma cells which produce growth hormone and prolactin
into aging rats actually regenerates the thymus, corrects the CD4/CD8 ratio and
restores cellular immunity.
GH3 pituitary adenoma cells can reverse thymic aging in rats.
'' ..... splenocytes from GH3-implanted rats showed augmented T-cell
proliferative responses and
increased synthesis of IL-2. ''
'' These data show that it is possible to regenerate normal thymic tissue in situ
and reverse the natural loss in cell-mediated immunity that occurs with aging. ''
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC386349/Keith Kelley, the principal Illinois University researcher in the above 1986 study,
followed up with this study 27 years later in 2013.
Pituitary epithelial cell implants reverse the accumulation
of CD4-CD8- lymphocytes in thymus glands of aged rats.
'' Thymus glands from old rats contained greater than 50% more CD4-CD8- cells
and a reduced percentage of CD4+CD8+ lymphocytes compared to those of
young rats. Moreover,
both of these age-associated changes were reversed
by implanting GH3 cells. GH3-treated aged rats also had a significantly greater
proportion of CD4+CD8- thymocytes compared to aged control rats. ''
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1572290This post has been edited by Tham: Oct 5 2014, 09:43 AM